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Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial PrismsA Call to a New Dance: [Re]Claiming and Implicating African Diasporic Indigeneity Through the Prism of Indigeneity as an International Category

Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial Prisms: A Call to... [The theme of “Decolonization and Indigeneity as International Categories” is explored in the chapter. The goal is to forge a new intellectual dance and political praxis. It is argued that taking “Indigeneity as an international category” allows us to see how Black bodies, enslaved/uprooted Black bodies and all whose Lands have been occupied by colonialism in a range of places, can draw upon and build solidarities with other colonized and oppressed populations. Before the ascendancy of Europe, there was a world that consisted of Europe itself and other communities. The prism of decolonization and Indigeneity allows us to understand the complexity of the African experience. A critical understanding and scaling up of decolonization and Indigeneity as an international category is very necessary, ethical, and responsible. It is duly noted that the Black/African experience [as attested to by presence on Turtle Island] is politically implicated in the project of capitalism/globalization not unlike (nor separate from) the settler colonial project. I think it is helpful to understand the project of capitalism and globalization better. I suggest we begin asking questions regarding our contemporary place in relation to its power and privileges that it offers, as well as the broader economic North–South relations. Yet, reducing contemporary political implications of Blackness in regards to capitalism/globalization to the colonial power and privileged experiences of settler, perpetuates procedures of violence and social injustice upon African peoples. The whole colonial project of “International Development” and the plight of the African and her presence on a colonially appropriated space is interrogated to bring home the violence of colonialism and our multiple implications.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decolonial PrismsA Call to a New Dance: [Re]Claiming and Implicating African Diasporic Indigeneity Through the Prism of Indigeneity as an International Category

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-53078-9
Pages
135 –149
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-53079-6_6
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[The theme of “Decolonization and Indigeneity as International Categories” is explored in the chapter. The goal is to forge a new intellectual dance and political praxis. It is argued that taking “Indigeneity as an international category” allows us to see how Black bodies, enslaved/uprooted Black bodies and all whose Lands have been occupied by colonialism in a range of places, can draw upon and build solidarities with other colonized and oppressed populations. Before the ascendancy of Europe, there was a world that consisted of Europe itself and other communities. The prism of decolonization and Indigeneity allows us to understand the complexity of the African experience. A critical understanding and scaling up of decolonization and Indigeneity as an international category is very necessary, ethical, and responsible. It is duly noted that the Black/African experience [as attested to by presence on Turtle Island] is politically implicated in the project of capitalism/globalization not unlike (nor separate from) the settler colonial project. I think it is helpful to understand the project of capitalism and globalization better. I suggest we begin asking questions regarding our contemporary place in relation to its power and privileges that it offers, as well as the broader economic North–South relations. Yet, reducing contemporary political implications of Blackness in regards to capitalism/globalization to the colonial power and privileged experiences of settler, perpetuates procedures of violence and social injustice upon African peoples. The whole colonial project of “International Development” and the plight of the African and her presence on a colonially appropriated space is interrogated to bring home the violence of colonialism and our multiple implications.]

Published: May 20, 2017

Keywords: Indigenous People; Black Community; Black People; African People; Global Relation

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